Posted on January 1, 2021
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A first grader should be at a reading level between 3 to 12. Higher reading levels indicate that they’re near the top of their class, but there’s always room for growth.
Category: ESL, Phonics, Reading, Teaching, Teaching EnglishTags: common core, dra, esl, grade 1, kindergarten, phonics, Phonics skills, PM benchmark, reading levels, Reading Skills, Resources, teachers pay teachers, Teaching
Posted on October 23, 2020
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What are the seven reading comprehension strategies? Although they often have slightly different names they are commonly referred to as: Summarization, Question Asking, Previewing, Text Structures, Graphic Organizers /Visualizing, Inferencing and Metacognition.
An introduction to the Minigames on teach your monster to read website. All these are free to access and really useful for self directed as well as classroom use!
Category: Educational technology, Educational Technoology, ESL, Lesson Plans, Phonics, Reading, Teaching, Teaching English, TEFLTags: corona, EFL, hong kong, phonics, phonics games, Phonics skills, reading, Teach your monster to read, tesol, virus
Posted on January 29, 2020
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This is a tricky one, of all the phonics rules the ones surrounding the letter and sounds of ”y” are difficult to find out. Especially after our students have gone through learning The names of the letters and then the sounds they can make, and maybe even that some of those letters have more than one sound, and then we show them ”y”
Category: ESL, Lesson Plans, Phonics, Reading, Teaching, Teaching English, TEFLTags: esl, kindergarten, phonics games, Phonics skills, phonics worksheets, primary english, Reading Skills, teach phonics, Teaching, teaching english, teaching reading using games, teaching tefl, tefl, tesol, y as vowel worksheets
Phonics is a vital skill and the earlier younger and emergent readers can learn these skills the better and more successful their language learning will be. There are still mixed feelings but being able to decode new words builds confidence and comprehension at a much faster way.
Category: Lesson Plans, Phonics, Reading, Teaching, Teaching English, TEFL, UncategorizedTags: esl, Jolly Phonics, kindergarten, phonics, Phonics skills, Reading Skills, teaching english, tefl, tesol
Posted on January 13, 2020
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TRUGS, or ”Teaching Reading Using Games” is a Synthetic phonics system I stumbled on a few years ago at a Education Expo in Hong Kong. I attend these things with a ”look what you could have won” mindset as they are usually showing off equipment or resources that my school at the time couldn’t, wouldn’t and probably shouldn’t invest in. Things like holographic projects, VR suites for whole classes, 8k interactive white boards, that supply coffee, that type of thing
Category: ESL, Lesson Plans, Phonics, Reading, Teaching, Teaching English, TEFLTags: CVC, Jolly Phonics, kindergarten, phonics, Phonics skills, reading, Resources, Syllables, teaching reading using games, TRUGS